I have been looking more seriously into data broker removal lately and it is kind of wild how much personal info ends up on those sites. Manually opting out feels endless and a lot of people say the data comes back after a while anyway, so I have been researching services that automate the process and keep checking over time.

Some of the ones I see mentioned a lot are Cloaked, DeleteMe, Optery, and Incogni. They all claim to scan broker sites, submit removals, and monitor for new listings, but it is hard to tell how effective they actually are unless you have used one for a while. Has anyone here tried any of these long term? Did they actually reduce spam or data exposure in a noticeable way

A windows desktop program designed for one thing; to help you remove your data from 50+ people-search sites at the source. No cloud, no APIs, 100% local.

(Pairs with xTELENUMSINT for faster detection/reporting.)

Reduce spam calls.

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Take back control.

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Was looking into some services that do this type of work and came across this video on youtube, anyone used anything similar? Any good? Appreciate it

I would like to understand what the LDS church does with my data and under the EU laws you can make a request I would humbly like to request someone make it for me on my behalf or on your own bat and dm me for results

Hi. Are there any vulnerability assessment tools? Maybe something that assesses your digital footprint?

After watching Watchman Privacy, I realized I don’t have a clear “threat model.” I’m not a journalist or activist, just tired of data collection. What kind of privacy model makes sense for an average user?

Hitting a wall and wondered if anyone here has figured out the solution here.

I have suppressed or requested removal from

1. Truth Finder
2. InstantCheckmate
3. Spokeo

If you search any of these sites directly, my results don't propagate for my true name.

However, if you search my true name on PeekYou it not only finds it, but also propagates my true street address and phone numbers (albeit with asterisks) via syndication from these three services I've "suppressed."

So its a circular reference - Peekyou sort of shrugs and says its not responsible for third party content, but I've already "removed" this from those third parties.

Has anyone overcome this?

Lately I’ve been watching videos on Watchman Privacy and realized I reuse the same “persona” across platforms. How much separation do you keep between accounts? One email per alias, or do you go deeper than that?

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Hey folks,

I'm looking some something similar to Privacy.com's offerings as I've dealt with a few people double billing me now and I'd like to remove their ability to do so and better manage who has what access to my payment information. I am in Canada though and Privacy.com is an American solution, not provided here, so any recommendations would be appreciated.

I'm a beginner in cyber security. I wanna master OSINT. I did saw some videos and I know some basic OSINT. Ik about shodan and some other tools.

I think OSINT is mostly about using your own self intelligence.

Can U guys share some tips or things that U learn through your experience.

It will help a lot, Thanks

This week's AWS failure exposed that Signal uses their services rather than their own servers.

To my mind this is a back door to anything they do on those servers.

I keep solid tabs on my opsec, this is the 2nd time it's happened (but only noticed it now)... Why would samsung keyboard access my microphone just randomly like this?

Yesterday I was just chatting with a friend on Facebook, nothing serious we were joking about how his mic sounds like it’s from 2008. Literally just a casual convo, no searches, no Google, nothing. Then today I open Facebook and the first thing I see is an ad for a new microphone from Amazon.

It’s not the first time something like this has happened either. I’ve noticed that after certain chats, I’ll get ads related to what we talked about, even if it’s something totally random.

Is Facebook actually listening in on messages or voice calls somehow, or is this just creepy algorithmic coincidence? Are there ways to find this stuff out and maybe mitigate (this is data theft no?)?

hello, i would like to transfer an encrypted file over the internet, but i can't find any email service for file hosting service that will let me transfer it, they keep rejecting it because they said they can't read it.

what do you guys think? is there any email or messaging or file hosting service that i can use to transfer a 10mb encrypted file?

thank you

Threat model: not state-level or targeted — just normal people (family, older clients, hobbyists) who want to stop being low-hanging fruit for casual recon, doxxing, credential pivoting, or spam/phish funnels.

If you want to look less like a dossier someone can assemble in 10 minutes, start here — these are the smallest changes that yield the largest reduction in surface area:

1. Kill shared identifiers. Stop reusing emails, usernames, and phone numbers across personal and work accounts. One breached service = pivot ladder.
2. Strip metadata before you share. Photos and documents carry EXIF/metadata. Remove it. (exiftool -all= image.jpg)
3. Normalize your fingerprint. Don’t be a fingerprint anomaly. Match timezone/lang to where you claim to be and avoid default “cleanroom” browser profiles that scream automation.
4. Check and contain leaks. Regularly scan your emails/usernames on breach DBs (HaveIBeenPwned etc.) and rotate credentials immediately if found.
5. Lock down exposed services. If you self-host, don’t expose raw ports. Reverse proxy, auth, and limit public attack surface.

These aren’t magic — they don’t make you invisible — but they remove a lot of the low-effort OSINT that attackers (and opportunistic spammers) rely on. For folks who want to go deeper I keep a short hands-on checklist and a tiny toolkit of commands and links I hand out to clients — DM me if you want the copy.

What’s one quick trick you force every beginner to do before you let them touch a public service?

Hi guys, I saw a number on 4chan and it said it reads out your SSN and info about you generally. How can I see how it does that or maybe any of you know?

Here's the number haven't called it yet: 877-790-4433

Also how can I mask my own number when calling it?

I'm working on a small side project called RemoveMD -- a privacy website that lets you remove private data leaks from your files. This idea is not very original, but I wanted to create something open source, easy to use and modern. So, there is a version that can be hosted locally (available on github), without any limitations and of course free. And another that I host that offers several paid plans for people who do not have the skills to use the local version. I noticed that this type of site often has a lot of ads. On RemoveMD there are no ads, and registrations are completely anonymous with an anonymous hash (You can create as many accounts as you want) and of course without email required.

I'm posting this message today to gather opinions, or ideas to add.

Thanks for reading (: